Sportsheckle.com

Our friends over at Sportsheckle.com had an idea for a social site dedicated to the art of, and celebrating the participants in, sports heckling. They asked us to handle everything from the ground up, web-wise. We stepped out of our shell, and produced a template design that works with their existing logo and preliminary art direction, and programmed a whopper of an open-source-based site. What we gave them was a fully customized, deep-integrated Wordpress/BBPress install with custom-written plugins to handle a myriad of issues unresolved in the BBPress system (custom community pages, user profile icons that transfer between systems, inline image uploading in user forum posts, etc.)

We also handled initial SEO and a base social media initiative for these guys, resulting in an immediate spike in readership. In the first month of the site, they put away a pretty respectable 1,000 unique members with nearly 10,000 page views and over 60% return visitors hitting up the site on 15 or more occasions.

We’re hoping those number just keep getting bigger.

Credit: Billy Milstid (Art Direction, Design, Programming, SEO & Social Media) // Left Designs